I keep seeing alot of postings with free stuff so I figured Id just make a post containing all the free sample and vst sites I have. Feel free to post up comments with your own as well.

Samples:
www.sampleradar.com

http://www.freesound.org/

http://www.drumsamples.org/

http://www.nodoughmusic.com/hello/ - have to sign up for an account and purchase a 0$ pack, but its a good one

http://www.flstudiomusic.com/ - great site that has a ton of drum hits, loops, and sound fonts. This site alone may take care of your drum hit needs. Also has fl studio synth presets and other files

http://soundfonts.darkesword.com/

http://rekkerd.org/loops/

http://www.ohdeo.com/

http://irlibrary.org/ - Like freesound.org, but for IR's

http://www.combinatorhq.com/modules.php?name=Downloads - must sign up, but great reason refills

http://www.nonstop2k.com/community/midi_index.php - not audio, but huge resource of midi files

http://waveformless.blogspot.com/search/label/Free Samples

http://www.looperman.com/loops.php

http://www.adventurekid.se/akrt/waveforms/ - good collection of single cycle waveforms

VSTs:
http://www.best-free-vst.com/

http://dskmusic.blogspot.com/p/downloads.html

http://myvst.com/

http://www.vstplanet.com/index.htm

http://www.kvraudio.com/ - king of vst search engines, basically a compilation of every vst in existence, just search plugin database for 'free' and your OS of choice. If you also check their forums under the instrument and sample sections they have long running sticky threads for free items.

http://plugins.gersic.com/index.php?daCat=-4

http://www.hitsquad.com - Lots of free vsts as well as all sorts of other audio programs and info

http://www.vst4free.com/

http://www.tweakbench.com/